The Article Content King “King & Prince Contest” officially begins today, 1st August 2009. The first King or Queen will be crowned on the 31st August. If you want to enter, all you have to do is activate your profile page in the members area and submit your best articles. (Click here to sign up free if you are not a member yet).

The “King Contest” Has Been Created For 2 Reasons.

1. To reward our authors for their articles and give the ones who are working for recognition rather than rankings, the rankings & recognition that they deserve.

2. To make Article Content King a little bit more special than the other article directories that you may submit articles to, in the hope that it will encourage more authors to submit well written, unique articles to the site.

And also, I guess to let the authors who are submitting mediocre articles that only just pass moderation that there is a lot more to be had if they pick up their game.

How Rankings Are Calculated

As you know, before it is published on the site, each article that is submitted has to be rated on a scale of 1-10 by 3 different members. The article goes live with a score equal to the total of the 3 votes received in moderation. So for example if 3 people rate the article as 5 out of 10, the article goes live with a score of 15. (Not enough to rank)

This score increases by +1 for every 100 unique visitors to the article and can be increased or decreased by visitors voting on the article. (Either +1 or -1). Of course, visitors can only vote on an article once and authors cannot vote on their own articles. (Cheats will be eliminated).

The “King” (or Queen) will be the person with the highest average article score of all articles, that were submitted in the last 30 days.

You can see current rankings for the “King” at
http://www.article-content-king.com/index.php?page=topauthor

and “the Princes” at
http://www.article-content-king.com/index.php?page=topprince

If you wish to be notified when the rankings change, you can do so by subscribing to the relevant RSS feed (Click the RSS image at the top of the page that you want to know the rankings of).

What Will The Winners Receive?

Who ever is “crowned” King (or Queen) will…

1. be recognised on the home page, the top authors page and the members area with an “ad” linking to their profile page.  I.E. The best author on the site by popular opinion & number of articles is ___________

2. have a full  post dedicated to them & their online business endeavours on the Article-Content-King blog.

3. Receive (at least) 10,000 advertising credits to display their own targeted ads across the site.

The “Princes” (or Princesses) will…

1. be recognised on the category pages that they are the Prince of. (i.e. Our Top Author in The ______ Category is…) With a Pic and link to profile page.

Have you activated your profile page?

I’ve just uploaded a video to the members area which explains how to get the most of your profile pages. (Something I have not seen any author do yet). Click here to log in.

All the best,

Dan Blackburn

Tags: King Contest

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